Re: Sparse Checkout With Externals (1.7.6)

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:42 PM, coolie <pcoulson_at_senscient.com> wrote:
> Specifiyinfg 'immediates' or 'files' does not checkout the externals
> for a folder with this property set.

Yes, this is a known issue:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3311 (externals
are not created unless depth=infinity)

> If you then do a checkout with 'infinity' you get the libs, but
> subsequent updates delete the lib again!. I can't seem to stop this
> behavior now as no matter what I do the lib always gets deleted.

I don't understand this bit. Can you describe an example, preferably
with a set of command line commands, starting from an empty
repository, and demonstrating what you mean?

-- 
Johan